Lake McAlester
Property Information provided by Owner for property located at 1965 McAlester Lake Road.
This place as it is today with all the improvements we made during the 3 year of Ownership will make someone a good home, ideal for horses and cattle. It is less than 1 mile from Lake McAlester; perfect for water sports and fishing! Grass Production is certainly in abundance as you can see on pictures. We cleaned the land, removed tons of rocks, scrubs, overgrow and trees. Then we fertilized and weed-sprayed every year. This place is like your own paradise close to town. The previous Owner remodeled the house and built the garage (not carport). Their job relocated! The land and trees were overgrown and neglected! House is well insulated, features an energy efficient heat pump and utility bills are low. We used the fireplace 3 times. The blower does not work and has not worked when we bought it, but w...
This place as it is today with all the improvements we made during the 3 year of Ownership will make someone a good home, ideal for horses and cattle. It is less than 1 mile from Lake McAlester; perfect for water sports and fishing! Grass Production is certainly in abundance as you can see on pictures. We cleaned the land, removed tons of rocks, scrubs, overgrow and trees. Then we fertilized and weed-sprayed every year. This place is like your own paradise close to town. The previous Owner remodeled the house and built the garage (not carport). Their job relocated! The land and trees were overgrown and neglected! House is well insulated, features an energy efficient heat pump and utility bills are low. We used the fireplace 3 times. The blower does not work and has not worked when we bought it, but we used in winter time without the blower. We had a propane tractor and got the tanks in, then installed the line to the house for wall heater back-up and 2 wall heaters. There is also a hook-up on the tanks to fill your propane bottles. Allford Propane is the supplier.
Please note: Since I am a Licensee in Oklahoma, I have to disclose the following personal interest: I am not the Owner of this beautiful property, but I am affiliated with the Owner; lived here, worked the land and improvements.
It was lot of hard work to make this place today what it is. Your cattle, horses, dogs and family will enjoy every bit of this property. Deer, Geese, Turkeys; they all come. We had plans of adding on another bedroom with bath in the room coming in from back door, but never got around to do it. There are several fantastic building sites uphill overlooking the pond and easy to connect to the septic and electric in case you wish to build a house. This was our plan with the kids!
We used electric fencing for cross-fence, which is also for sale, see attached list of Ag Equipment for Sale. We love the seclusion with 15 min. to Hospital and 20 min. to Walmart or Highway 69. The 2 1/4 acre pond is great for canoe and small boats. The Catfhish pond is about 3/4 acre. We used a floating turtle trap on big pond, which was the best investment ever! We do not kill the turtle, we release them by the bridge into the creek on Talawanda Rd and at time at the dam at McAlester Lake.
The Owner bought the place in 2013 for $190,000 WITHOUT any of the listed improvements! At that time the home was appraised for $195,000. At that time none of the stated improvements existed. When your review the improvement list, you will quickly recognize that even with the asking price, the current Owner is not recouping what they have put into this beautiful place. But we loved the place and still do. Our hearts are in every stone we turned, trees we removed to give space to the big trees to unfold their beauty, simply everything we done on this place was done because we love it! You can research the market, there is not a place out there in McAlester area close to town! It was a hard decision to decide selling it, but unexpected health issue and irregular, long working hours dont leave much of a choice. Just to last week we had big discussions if we will sell it or keep it!
The previous Owner had an RV hooked up on the south side of home while remodeling the house. We measured the big pond on goggle satellite and it came out to 2 1/4 acre. We opened up a great picnic area down by the pond. There is a shelter-like, native stone structure down by the pond. We were told by relatives of the ORIGINAL Owner that their Great Grandfather pumped water from the big pond to the minnow ponds. We also found a water well located by the drive-way shortly after passing over the bridge. We do not know why it is on that location and assume it had something to do when the original Owner had the minnow ponds. We removed all overgrown scrubs, young trees, etc. around the entire creek bed and started using the native stone from the land to fill the sides of the creek bed. There was a ditch to the side of the house, which was for our taste to close to the house. As we started clean-up on the ditch we notice broken lateral lines, which the previous Owner did not disclose. So we had an aerobic system installed. The Installer connected those lines to the existing standard septic tank since it was in excellent condition and was pumped in 2016 during our Ownership.
Every year there are flocks of geese and wild ducks coming to the ponds. If you enjoy waterfowl and birds, gardening, peaceful and secluded setting, this is the place youll enjoy. In the back side there are over 500 acres of timbered land owned by a Church in the City and is known as Camp Hudgens. This camp has been vacant for many years. Although we have several deer stand up we decided not to shut one and feet them in winter time well. Every year roams a 12 point buck through our property. It was tempting to shoot him, but we decided not do! He is a Majestic looking Buck.
At times we do have a few wild hogs roaming. They are coming though by the fence uphill at the big feed plot. We set snares to catch them. If you are a hunter enjoying deer and turkey, this is it. The previous Owner had 25 cattle on the land WITHOUT the land improvements. It can run more than that in the current, improved condition. We also had 3 horses and went swimming horse back in the pond, which is good exercise for the horses too! It is simply paradise with 18 min. to Walmart and 15 min. to hospital! While we have been working hard on this land, the neighborhood watch was on during the 3 years. Everybody of the elder neighbors told us how proud the original Owner would have been. He too took much pride and had passion for the land is what we have been told from neighbors and relatives living in the area. Please note: we love this place and if we could retire or have normal working hours,or the kids would been living with us; we would never sell it! This place is home, peaceful, private and every time we make improvements we feel great joy seeing the land come alive. Whoever get this place, please go fishing in both ponds. We only fished about 12 out, average of 1o pound catfish, and there are very big ones in the big pond. Can you imagine how big the ones are by now we transferred from the small catfish pond to the big one?
We hope that the next Owners will love this place as we have and will continue being a Good Stewardtof the Land. It would be shame to let it go back into overgrow and neglect.
No personal items will be included in the real estate purchase. All items will have to be purchased separate!
Items that will NOT STAY: The bell (we use it to call our dogs in or honey to come to supper; kids gave to us), the metal fish art on back porch, wagon wheels by shop, ag equipment, outside furniture; some are stated for sale in FOR SALE LIST of personal property
Improvements within 3 years of Ownership
Installed aerobic septic system in 2016 $6,500
Pumped septic in 2016
Removed 4 huge trees at side of house = 500
Installed side rails and step rails at front porch plus a set of concrete steps by retaining wall = 300
Removed old rotten railroad ties serving as retaining wall in front and installed new cinderblock retaining walls with drainage system and painted them to blend with home $700
Installed new drainage lines at corner of house, connecting gutter to underground drainage lines leading to the drive-way in December 2017. We had 4 water containers one each side of the house for watering the garden, but choose to take them with us. $ $500.-
Maintained the native stone rock foundation, re-mortared with special stone adhesive and painted with sealant. $250.-
Installed new gate with latches, steel walking plate, cattle guard plus overhead pipe ranch entrance = 1,500
Stocked ponds with minnows and catfish $1,500
Bull dozed pasture and timber open, removed over 300 trees, old fence and wire. Made road to uphill, fill in old ditch near house. Bulldozing work in 3 years: $17,000
Digging catfish pond where used to be 3 small, shallow minnow ponds (I called them puddles), dozing berm in backside of house uphill along the timber line for flood control, digging ditch by hill side timber, removed tons of scrubs, overgrow and trees around pond and then doubled the dam by big pond.
Trimmed trees at alley drive way and around pond with power lift = $750
Stocked ponds with 500 catfish and minnows. We overstocked it and put about 80 into the big pond. They need to be fished out in this pond. We will take about 30 over to the big pond in March.
Installed concrete platform, American Eagle Windmill with stainless steel crankshaft plus 2 air stones diffusers extra oxygen for catfish pond, installed spillway with cinder blocks at catfish pond = $ 4,575
Installed native stone patio with flood control cinder block retaining wall AND with ________feet of load bearing, corrugated French Drain Pipe with poly rock and mesh sock; leading the water to the ditch behind ag buildings and created an additional garden bed with good soil, lime and natural fertilizers. In this one we grew tomatoes, corn, herbs and other non-deep rooting produce= 2,000
Installed custom-built adjoining to shop tall carport with metal beams = $ 7,000
Installed small work shed with concrete steps between shop and barn bldg.= $575
Installed custom-built 3 bay loafing barn with feed/tack room and slider door, 2 farm gates = altogether $ 8,000
Removed old spill way by big pond and installed new spill way with retaining wall, fence and posts w/mortared cinder blocks $ 800
Build new spillway with concrete block, fence posts and fence by catfish pond $ 500
Land/ Pasture: brush hogged, cleared over grow in land and around ponds, removed tons of rock/native stone from pastures and other areas, removed old fences, scrap metal, fertilized, weed sprayed, seeded with balanced mixture of grasses such as Bermuda, fescue, glover, rye and other grasses. Each year this land got improved and well taken care off during our Ownership.
Removed of the old fence line and rotten posts in timber uphill, opened timber, removed tons of native stone, seeded in Bermuda nad Rye, bull dozed ditch deeper all along the back side uphill. Opened area and Implemented 4 feed plots, one behind house on hill, one inside the timber uphill to the south and one straight south to fence, one at west side.
Hauled off 3 trailer loads of old wire, metal, etc. found in pasture and timber.
Installed grass sod around house $ 500
Implemented 7 truck loads of top soil which we then build up with lime and other nutrients and used in garden bed, flower bed and land = 2,600
Mixed 4 pallets of miracle grow garden soil = 450.-
Installed huge garden bed adjoining garden and flower beds in back with stone borders = $ 600
Planted 3 hibiscus, 2 rose bushes, berry bushes, asparagus, cannas, lilies daffodils, variety of herbs, 2 grape myrtles and several fruit trees, 7grape myrtles at entrance gate with border stones = $ 955.-
Every year we spray in spring and fall for bugs, etc. in, around and under house and exterior structures $500
Home: Installed propane gas line from tank to house and installed 2 wall heaters for back-up of winter season $ 1,000
Installed exterior outlets w/covers and specific plug for tanning bed by back entrance room. $100.-
Installed vanity, faucet, towel holder at mud room (this room is ideal for second bath) $ 259.-
Installed 43 Western Cabinet Knobs and Handles, plus 2 Western Light Switch Plates $253.-
Implemented all curtain $175
Installed Shower Rod and Western Curtain $ 65
Installed new dishwasher in 2017 $675
Installed new side by side refrigerator in 2013 $ 1,200 (did not have one when we bought it)
Painted bathroom, bedrooms, living room, kitchen, mud room in lighter color
Installed shoe rack in master bedroom closet $ 75,-
Installed all exterior gutters professional installed by Anderson seamless guttering $600
Installed new carpet and quality pad in LR, new laminate flooring in bath,utility room and kitchen. The previous Owner had dark brown, vinyl plank flooring installed and we did not like it as much, plus the floor is much warmer now too. $3,200 December 2017 and January 2018.
Because of everything matched except the kitchen floor with the dark brown vinyl planks we had the new laminated floor in kitchen installed too just last week. It sure is pretty and easy to clean too! $ 900.-
Installed drainage assistance on the south and north side of home, leading to the drive-way. $250
Had several loads of gravel brought in for drive-way and parking area. $700
Bought several loads of good loam to fill in holes in pastures left behind from big rocks we dug out! $ 1,200
Enclosed south side by patio behind house for wind block.
Installed new farm gate in NW corner of property adj. neighbors land.
As you can see, we worked hard to make this land come alive and spend lot of money just in a few years to make it what it is today! We hope a new Owner will enjoy this beautiful place and will continue being a good Steward of the Land.
Shown only by appointment. Pre-Qualification Letter or proof of funds a must have at time of Offer!
